Science & Technology

Sandra Steingraber, a cancer survivor, author, scientist and activist who brings a personal perspective to studying the links between human health and the environment, will be the keynote speaker for next week's SustainIU Week activities at Indiana University Bloomington. Steingraber will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union.

Scientists and policymakers should draw on experience from the distant past to develop a new paradigm for protecting ecosystems at a time of accelerating global change, an Indiana University paleontologist and co-authors write in a paper published today.

To help the Indiana University and Bloomington communities to become more conscious consumers of news, the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President is hosting an interactive workshop titled "Fake or Fact? The Search for Real News in 2017" on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 6:30 p.m. in Presidents Hall within Franklin Hall as part of the offices Hot Topics series.

Venus will dominate the evening sky in the west during February. It will be brightest in midmonth but close to that peak every night. This month will be a prime opportunity to see Venus with the naked eye in daylight.

Scientists at the IU School of Informatics and Computing and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division will work together to transform existing military sensor technology through machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The study, which was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how the extreme growth experienced by fruit flies in their earliest stage of life shares biochemical similarities with the growth of cancer cells.

A trio of Indiana University students swept the second annual Demo Day business pitch competition, which serves as the capstone event for the B-Start pre-accelerator program developed by the Bloomington Economic Development Corp.